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Feature
Meet Ron White, the Texas-Born Memory Champ You’ll Never Forget
By Megan Feldman
Published: May 14, 2009
Standing chest-deep in the hotel pool, Ron White felt foolish. Were the people on lounge chairs near the deep end watching him? Well, screw it. If he cared what a few strangers...
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Buzz
A Daytime Curfew? What's Next, Making Kids Wear Mao Jackets?
By Patrick Williams
Published: May 14, 2009
Save Ferris: Elsewhere in this week's paper, Jim Schutze is mounting a spirited defense of DISD's magnet schools for talented and gifted students. The district's magnets and...
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Schutze
Go Ahead DISD Trustees. Gut the Magnet Schools. If You Want a City That Aspires to Mediocrity.
By Jim Schutze
Published: May 14, 2009
For the last several weeks, a certain story has emanated from the superintendent of schools in Dallas and also from a majority of the school board and a cast of lawyers. I...
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Sports
Opponents Can't Defend Dirk Nowitzki. So Richie Whitt Will Do It.
By Richie Whitt
Published: May 14, 2009
If things go badly in Denver, the Dallas Mavericks have lost this series. But Dirk Nowitzki should've won your heart. Despite being sucker-shoved by Kenyon Martin, lambasted...
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Ask a Mexican
Mexicans May Be Nostalgic for Home, But That Doesn’t Mean They Want to Live There
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 14, 2009
My wife is from Michoacán state. We've bought a home in the small town of her birth. I love everything about the quiet little place. Even her mother is kind to me, as if...
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Music
The Phoenix Project Rises From DIY Ethics
By Jesse Hughey
Published: May 14, 2009
It was going to be great. Jessica Luther (aka JeSICKa MesSICKa) and a team of musician friends from the loose-knit DFW punk scene were a day from receiving the keys to the...
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Music
To Hell With The Music Scene's Good Intentions
By Pete Freedman
Published: May 14, 2009
Hey, not to be a dick or anything, but when did everyone around here stop being a dick? When did the DFW music scene lose its sense of entitlement? When did it stop demanding...
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Critics' Picks
VEGA
Thursday, May 14, at The Lounge on Elm Street
By Pete Freedman
Published: May 14, 2009
Though he may have "officially" moved from Dallas to Austin a few months back, let's face it: Alan Palomo has never really left the region. Between live performances with his...
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playlist
Lady Sovereign
Jigsaw (Midget/EMI)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 14, 2009
Lady Sovereign was the Asher Roth of 2006, the subject of a tremendous marketing blitz preceding the U.S. release of her debut, Public Warning. Like the suburban stylings of...
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Bsides
20 Years In, Propagandhi's Still Swinging
By Daniel Daugherty
Published: May 14, 2009
When Propagandhi announced a Dallas tour date, excitement gave way to puzzlement as people realized that the band, whose songs convey more than a mild distaste for religion,...
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North of the Dial
Oso Closo Needs Your Help
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: May 14, 2009
Even before Oso Closo landed its Tommy gig with the Dallas Theater Center last fall, the band was ready to record a follow up to 2007's debut album, Rest. "We've been sitting...
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Dish
Red India Bistro Frees Chop Suey From Its Can
By Dave Faries
Published: May 14, 2009
Chop suey. My God. By the '80s this dish had been relegated to La Choy and Chun King dinners. You know, the ones with two cans taped together—one containing the glop to...
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Cheap Bastard
At McAlister’s Deli, All You Need to Know is This: They Have Bacon. Mmm.
By Alice Laussade
Published: May 14, 2009
I was leaving the Barnes and Noble after my usual weekly session of reading all of their magazines without purchasing anything when McAlister's Deli caught my eye. It was the...
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Film
Angels & Demons Speeds Down the Track Laid by The Da Vinci Code
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: May 14, 2009
At the end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around Paris and London for more than two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was just an old cup or the womanly seed of...
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Night & Day
Girl Fight
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: May 14, 2009
Everyone loves a rematch. For the first time since the 2008 Olympic semi-final game, the U.S. women's soccer team will face-off against Japan. I'm not saying it's a good sign...
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Night & Day
Come Out And Play
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: May 14, 2009
The Offspring's gonna give it to you, baby, ah ha ah ha...when they come through town, that is. Dexter Holland decided to start a punk rock band after being barred from...
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Night & Day
Treat Your Ticker
By Mark Donald
Published: May 14, 2009
The heart--beating, breaking, soaring, aching, the seat of the soul, the source of emotions, the nub of luv--is the inspiration for music, cinema, novels, theater and 5K races....
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Night & Day
Va Va Vroom
By S. Anne Durham
Published: May 14, 2009
Gentleman, start your engines. Ladies, start yours too. This goes double for ladies and gentlemen who have embraced the smoking-hot pin-up and burlesque scene. From burlesque...
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Night & Day
Art Is Risen
By Patrick Williams
Published: May 14, 2009
Well, how about that? All these years you were making art and didn't even know it. That Chianti bottle you turned into a candle holder? Art. Those milk crates you converted...
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Night & Day
Symphonic Sharks
By Erin Waters
Published: May 14, 2009
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra makes a musical Pangaea, uniting polar opposites, in its upcoming West Side Story: Symphonic Dances. It's this unlikely melting pot concept...
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